A decrease in the supply of a good will cause a larger increase in its price
A) if there are many close substitutes for the good.
B) the greater the scarcity of the good.
C) the more elastic the demand for the good.
D) the more inelastic the demand for the good.
D
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By dividing the value of total domestic output (real Gross Domestic Product (GDP)) by the number of workers, economists derive
A) the net domestic product. B) labor productivity. C) the size of the labor force. D) the rate of capital accumulation.
A farm is able to produce 10,000 bushels of peanuts per season on 10 acres. Assume it adds one more acre and is able to produce 12,000 bushels per season. The marginal product of the additional acre of land for this farm is:
a. 10,000 bushels per acre per year. b. 1,200 bushels per acre per year. c. 2,000 bushels per acre per year. d. 12,000 bushels per acre per year.
Much of the nation's coal is extracted by strip mining. This process leaves a huge barren hole in the ground when complete, and the cost of replanting the trees is approximately $10 per ton of coal. Burning the coal for electricity causes air pollution. No one knows how much damage the air pollution causes, but we know that for another $10 per ton the power plant can be outfitted with a pollution
control device. What is one measure of the true social cost of coal fired electricity, in dollars per ton? a. Private marginal cost plus the $10 replanting charge. b. Private marginal cost plus the $10 emission control charge. c. Only the $20 of replanting and emission control charges, because the other costs are private, not social. d. Private marginal cost plus the $20 of replanting and emission control charges. e. In order to answer this question we need to know the dollar value of the pollution.